Senior SRE: Cloud-Native Reliability & Observability

Optum; Schaumburg (IL); Remote; USD 92,000 - 164,000; Full time

Job summary

Optum is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead SRE practices, design scalable cloud-native platforms across AWS and Azure, and drive observability initiatives. You will develop alerts, dashboards, and reliable automation to reduce toil and improve system stability.

The role supports Kubernetes-based environments and CI/CD pipelines, with on-call rotation and collaboration across engineering, security, and platform teams. Remote work within the United States is possible.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 7+ years in SRE/DevOps/Platform Engineering.
• 4+ years cloud infra exposure (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• 3+ years Kubernetes in production (EKS/AKS/GKE).
• 3+ years IaC (Terraform or equivalent).
• 3+ years observability/monitoring tools (Datadog/Splunk/Grafana/OpenTelemetry/Prometheus).
• 3+ years CI/CD using GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins/ArgoCD or equivalent.
• 3+ years scripting with Python/Bash/PowerShell.

Responsibilities

• Lead SRE practices with SLIs/SLOs and error budgets to boost reliability.
• Design and support cloud-native platforms across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes.
• Build observability dashboards and alerting for end-to-end health visibility.
• Lead incident response, RCA, and post-incident remediation.

Skills

SRE principles

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Observability

Terraform (IaC)

CI/CD pipelines

Python scripting

On-call experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IT

Tools

Datadog

Splunk

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Terraform

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Azure DevOps

Job description

Optum is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead SRE practices, design scalable cloud-native platforms across AWS and Azure, and drive observability initiatives. You will develop alerts, dashboards, and reliable automation to reduce toil and improve system stability.

The role supports Kubernetes-based environments and CI/CD pipelines, with on-call rotation and collaboration across engineering, security, and platform teams. Remote work within the United States is possible.